Not all pages may apply to pgtable check. One example is ZONE_DEVICE
pages: they map PFNs directly, and they don't allocate page_ext at all
even if there's struct page around. One may reference
devm_memremap_pages().
When both ZONE_DEVICE and page-table-check enabled, then try to map some
dax memories, one can trigger kernel bug constantly now when the kernel
was trying to inject some pfn maps on the dax device:
kernel BUG at mm/page_table_check.c:55!
While it's pretty legal to use set_pxx_at() for ZONE_DEVICE pages for page
fault resolutions, skip all the checks if page_ext doesn't even exist in
pgtable checker, which applies to ZONE_DEVICE but maybe more.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240605212146.994486-1-peterx@redhat.com
Fixes: df4e817b7108 ("mm: page table check")
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
page = pfn_to_page(pfn);
page_ext = page_ext_get(page);
+ if (!page_ext)
+ return;
+
BUG_ON(PageSlab(page));
anon = PageAnon(page);
page = pfn_to_page(pfn);
page_ext = page_ext_get(page);
+ if (!page_ext)
+ return;
+
BUG_ON(PageSlab(page));
anon = PageAnon(page);
BUG_ON(PageSlab(page));
page_ext = page_ext_get(page);
- BUG_ON(!page_ext);
+
+ if (!page_ext)
+ return;
+
for (i = 0; i < (1ul << order); i++) {
struct page_table_check *ptc = get_page_table_check(page_ext);